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Sport:
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College Basketball |
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Game:
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Brown Bears at Harvard Crimson |
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Date/Time:
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2/26/2010 7:00PM EST |
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Pick:
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Brown Bears |
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Reason:
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Brown is coming off a weekend sweep last Friday and Saturday against Princeton and Penn and both of those came on the road. The Bears have had a disappointing season and they could have tossed the towel in long ago but they continue to play hard and will close out the season doing so. There were not a ton of expectations this season for Brown but things should have been better with two All-Ivy League players in Matt Mullery and Peter Sullivan. The big issue this season was injuries. There were not a lot of missed games but nagging injuries would cause players to play hurt and finally this team is back to 100 percent. The Bears have now won three of their last four games and they are a very respectable 3-2 on the road in the Ancient Eight. A loss at Columbia was a bad won but a 14-point loss at Cornell was a decent showing as they were in the game for the majority of the time before a second half run put the game out of reach. This team is playing with enough confidence right now and the goal with four games remaining is to finish the season with a .500 conference record meaning it will need to win three of those final four games. I give Harvard a lot of respect. After getting blown out at home against likely Ivy League champion Cornell last Friday night, it came back on Saturday and played a very focused game in the dismantling of Columbia. With the Ivy League Championship lone gone, the Crimson will be playing out the season and hope to get into one of the other postseason tournaments and with an 18-6 record, that is a good possibility. While a win here is a must, the game tomorrow night is the one that is going to be in the forefront. It is the final home game of the season for Harvard and more notable, the final home game in the spectacular career of guard Jeremy Lin, who recently moved into eighth place on the all-time Harvard scoring list. Brown is 5-2 ATS this season as double-digit underdogs while Harvard is 1-2 ATS when favored by 15 or more points. This is a revenge game for Brown who lost at home to the Crimson by 14 points less than two weeks ago. Playing the road revenge factor is tough especially when the line is as big as it is but we do not need the outright here and the Bears have proven to be solid in these spots in the past. Brown is 19-7 ATS in its last 26 road games revenging a loss where the opponent scored 75 or more points. Meanwhile, Harvard is just 6-15-1 ATS in its last 22 games against teams with a winning percentage below .400. 3* Brown Bears |
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